{"id":23212,"date":"2019-02-05T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=bf5029f8ee414db3873df6f31b23054d"},"modified":"2019-02-05T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:18:11","slug":"the-rise-of-a-fake-president-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/02\/05\/the-rise-of-a-fake-president-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of a Fake President in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 23 2019, Juan Guaid\u00f3, the current president of the defunct Venezuelan National Assembly, pronounced himself the president of the country. The United States, Canada, the European Union and a few Latin American countries immediately recognized him, while Russia, China, Mexico and many other countries support the democratically-elected current president, Nicolas Maduro. How did this relatively unknown man who barely won his race for the assembly rise to the position of fake president? We discuss that and more with Dan Cohen of The Grayzone Project.<\/p> <p>Subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through, plus Clearing the FOG totes, water bottles and T shirts. Visit\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG\" rel= \"nofollow\">Patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG<\/a>.<\/p> <p>And visit the new Popular Resistance Podcast Network at\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularresistance.org\/prpn\/\" rel= \"nofollow\">www.PopularResistance.org\/prpn.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/the-rise-of-a-fake-president-in-venezuela\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 23 2019, Juan Guaid\u00f3, the current president of the defunct Venezuelan National Assembly, pronounced himself the president of the country. The United States, Canada, the European Union and a few Latin American countries immediately recognized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23213,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions\/23213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}